Azure Functions Skills is a repository of agent skills, prompts, reusable definitions, MCP configuration, and telemetry hooks that give coding agents context about Azure Functions development and operations. Developers use it for guidance on triggers, bindings, runtimes, deployment, and code checks, while the catalogue contains its agent-facing add-ons.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Azure/azure-functions-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-functions-skills/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/azure-functions-skills/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/azure-functions-skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/azure-functions-skills/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/azure/azure-functions-skills/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/azure/azure-functions-skills/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01026 | $0.01026 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00410 | $0.00410 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00205 | $0.00205 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00103 | $0.00103 |
Grade A, and why
azure-functions-skills AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure Functions Skills — Development Standards
These instructions apply to all coding agents working in this repository.
Project Overview
- What: Skills + telemetry plugin that equips coding agents with Azure Functions–specific knowledge, plus a small companion CLI (template apply, telemetry sender, build)
- Stack: TypeScript (strict), Node.js 18+, ESM
- Targets: GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, Codex CLI
- Testing: Vitest for unit tests
Commands
| Task | Command |
|---|---|
| Build | npm run build |
| Compile only | npm run compile |
| Unit tests | npm test |
| Tests (watch) | npm run test:watch |
| Lint | npm run lint |
| Type check | npm run typecheck |
| Security lint | npm run lint:security |
| Skill validation | npm run validate:skills |
| Plugin payload verify | npm run verify:plugin-payload |
| Full gate | npm run check |
Code Style
- TypeScript strict mode — avoid
anytypes; use proper interfaces and generics. - Named exports; no default exports.
- Prefix intentionally unused parameters with
_. - Conventional commits:
feat:,fix:,test:,docs:,chore:,refactor:. - Remove unused imports, variables, and functions before committing.
Architecture
- Separate concerns by domain:
src/build/,src/telemetry/,src/templates/. - Avoid duplicate code — extract shared logic into helpers.
templates/is the canonical source; generated payloads are derived.- Never hand-edit files under
.github/plugins/,.plugin/, or.claude-plugin/. Changetemplates/, then regenerate withnpm run build:plugin-payload.
Testing
- TDD: Write tests first. Every new function or module must have tests before implementation.
- Unit tests live in
tests/*.test.ts. - Use
npm run test:watchduring TDD cycles. - Run
npm testbefore every commit. - CLI changes require a manual run:
node bin/azure-functions-skills.js <cmd> --dir <isolated-workspace>. - When the task is not code-related (skills, CI config, documentation), TDD is not required.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago Changed · -3 lines · -137 tokens per session 24edd1e98ba7
- 1mo ago Changed · +41 tokens per session 627f49828f8c
- 1mo ago Changed · -38 lines · -442 tokens per session scan C → A 0a454dc31adf
- 1mo ago Changed · +40 lines · +536 tokens per session scan A → C 1d2947caf0d2
- 2mo ago First seen · 94 lines · 1,028 tokens per session scan A e3d0e967105e
azure-functions-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Azure/azure-functions-skills (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,026 tokens to every session, about $0.0041 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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